Chapter 187: Prelude to the Revolution

The conversation with Hathaway added a weight to Zhang Xun's desire to go to Africa.

However, this is not something that can be started immediately.

At the very least, we must first finish what Yingyang has in hand.

Zhang Xun had doubts about what would happen if he introduced Jenny Machine into the other world.

Jenny Machine is just a temptation, or a foreshadowing, Zhang Xun has a plan in mind, if you want to forcibly start the industrial revolution, then you need a sum of money.

Zhang Xun was ready to let Dongjing pay for himself.

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"Lancôme, what time is it today?"

Zhang Xun asked while buttoning up in the mirror.

After getting the answer, he nodded and ordered, "Tell the institute to bring the improved Jenny machine, by the way, they should have done the test, and bring the test set of things." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. Lancôme put down the wooden comb and said quietly, and then frowned when she saw the image in Zhang Xun's mirror, and she suddenly asked puzzled, "Did Your Majesty remember something again?"

"yes, I'm wondering when I'll have time to make a real mirror, it's still not clear enough. Zhang Xun muttered to himself.

Lancôme didn't answer, she was used to His Majesty's nonsense.

Soon after, the current director of the research institute, Ruhr, came to the palace with the machine, and at the request of Zhang Xun, directly moved the Jenny machine into the palace hall.

"It looks good, I've tried it, can it be used?" After Zhang Xun stepped into the main hall, he walked around the Jenny machine three times and asked.

Ruhl replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, there were some minor problems at the beginning, but after a slight improvement, it can now operate as usual, and according to the construction you have given, this loom now produces twenty times as much as it originally produced per unit. ”

After studying with Zhang Xun for a long time, Ruhr has also become accustomed to some professional terms.

"Very good, are you a tester?" Zhang Xun nodded, looking at a woman standing in the crowd with her head down, staring at her toes.

She was nervous, not like an aristocrat.

Ruhl explains: "This is the wife of the deputy director, who is familiar with weaving, and we specially invited her to participate in the experiment. ”

"I see, the family members of the cadres, and the spirit of supporting the revolutionary work is very commendable. Zhang Xun suddenly said, "Since it has been done, then immediately invite the envoy from the eastern border to come over." ”

Ruhl was stunned and said, "Aren't you going to look at it again? We've got plenty of material to demonstrate it multiple times." ”

Zhang Xun smiled and said, "No need, wait and show the envoy directly, I believe in your ability." ”

Ruerton was moved.

said that he wanted Duran to come over, but in fact, he ordered to call all the important ministers of the kingdom who had no urgent affairs in the royal capital to come over and observe together.

A dozen ministers rushed into the main hall and looked curiously at the strange-looking loom, their eyes burning as if flowers had grown on it.

They were all wondering what their young Majesty was going to come up with.

Duran came quickly.

He was still so personable and courteous, and when he entered the main hall, he couldn't help but be surprised to see so many courtiers, and his heart skipped a beat when he saw the smiling king waiting on the throne and the big thing covered with black cloth under the throne.

"Your Majesty, is this a ......?"

Duran remembered what Zhang Xun had said in the last meeting.

Zhang Xun said with a smile, "Yes, this is what I said to show you." ”

"Oh?" Duran's gaze fell on the black cloth, as if to read the contents.

Zhang Xun didn't have time to sell Guanzi, so he simply walked over, and then told the courtiers about what had happened, and then said with a smile, "Don't talk about it, let's just look at things." ”

As soon as he beckoned, a beautiful maid suddenly came over with something similar to a musical baton, Zhang Xun reached out and took it, poked its tip into the black cloth, and then picked it open in front of everyone.

This very strange-looking loom is revealed.

"I call her Jenny Loom Generation. ”

Zhang Xun looked at this machine with admiration, in his eyes, this is not just a strangely shaped wooden machine, but an outpost of the industrial revolution, and the black cloth he deliberately made just now is not to create an atmosphere or anything, but to feel that the appearance of the Jenny machine should always have a ceremony or something, not complicated, simple, but there must be.

In this world, no one knows what exactly stands behind this machine except himself.

If the changes in human society are divided according to the speed, then it can be divided into two parts: before the industrial revolution and after the revolution.

Although there have been changes in the past few thousand years, the standard of living of human beings as a whole has not undergone earth-shaking changes.

After the Industrial Revolution, the first time, the second time, electricity, network, and so on, all came one after another.

Living in a city that is changing with each passing day, Zhang Xun often finds himself in the process of being abandoned, and new technology is replacing the old every day.

It is only occasionally stepping out of the eye and looking at those parts of the world that are still backward that we can be reminded that the rapid development of human society is out of touch, and many contemporary societies have become specimens worth studying.

For example, on the other side of the Yalu River.

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And the appearance of the Jenny machine means to the other world, Zhang Xun still dare not guess, but he knows that when he introduced the Blue Star civilization to the other world, an alternative "civilization invasion" has already begun.

Historically, aggression has often been whitewashed in the name of "salvation".

Zhang Xun looked at Jenny Ji's generation, and couldn't help but think that it was nothing for the ancestors to liberate the whole of China and the United States imperialism to blow the capitalist west wind all over the vast land of the seven continents.

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After sighing, Zhang Xun's misty eyes became clear, and he noticed that the ministers were talking in a low voice.

As soon as he waved his hand, the family members of the deputy director stepped forward and began to operate the Jenny machine very shyly.

Zhang Xun explained to Duran: "Now let the experimenters of our research institute demonstrate it for you, I believe you are not ignorant of the efficiency of the loom. ”

He looked at Duran with a smirk.

Duran suddenly said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I still understand this." ”

"That's good, it may take a little time, we might as well ......" Zhang Xun said, and suddenly, I saw that under the operation of the female worker, the Jenny machine generation began to run around.

Zhang Xun was stunned, exhaled, and said, "It seems that we don't need to wait." ”

I saw that in the main hall, ten spindles were running at the same time, and in the squeak, the cotton thread became cloth.

It really doesn't take time, and when it starts running, the efficiency of the crushing situation is enough to stun anyone who knows about traditional looms.

And so it is.

There was a sudden silence in the hall.

The ministers were silent.

Duran was even more dumbfounded, only a pair of blue eyes scattered a werewolf-like ghostly light.

Chirp chirp chirp.

The main hall only smells weaving.

Zhang Xun stood in front of Jenny's machine and smiled, flying with his hands on the machine, and the machine was running, like the wheel of history, rolling forward.